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PUBLIC TALK: The Wonders of Creation and the Singularities of Painting

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Today's date is Friday, March 29, 2024
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A public lecture by Stefano Carboni, Director, Art Gallery of Western Australia and Adjunct Professor of Islamic Art, The University of Western Australia.

The subject of this lecture is the so-called London Qazvini, an early 14th-century illustrated Arabic copy of an encyclopaedia of natural history entitled (in translation) 'The Wonders of Creation and the Oddities of Existing Things', which has an ambitious illustrative cycle and was likely created in Mosul in Northern Iraq.

The manuscript is the subject of a book authored by Stefano Carboni 'The Wonders of Creation and the Singularities of Painting. A Study of the Ilkhanid London Qazvini' (Edinburgh University Press, 2015) which offers a presentation, stylistic analysis and discussion of its 368 miniature paintings that illustrate this codex, their scientific identification and a partial critical translation of the related Arabic text. The eclectic nature of the miniature paintings of the London manuscript adds important and unrecorded information to the study of early fourteenth-century Persian painting and this monographic work helps towards a better understanding of a still relatively obscure period in the history of Persian painting.

Cost: FREE but RSVP requested via the website
Location Seminar Room 1, The University Club of Western Australia
Contact Institute of Advanced Studies <[email protected]> : 6488 1340
URL http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/lectures/carboni/
Start Mon, 05 Oct 2015 18:00
End Mon, 05 Oct 2015 19:00
RSVP RSVP is required.
Submitted by Audrey Barton <[email protected]>
Last Updated Tue, 01 Sep 2015 13:55
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